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agrover··on Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
This seems to be the growing consensus.
agrover··on The memory remains: Permanent memory with systemd and a Rust allocator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inetd came out in 1978, if we're keeping score.
agrover··on The Ur-Quan Masters: Open-source remake of Star Control II
It's not a remake, it's based on the original source code.
agrover··on Rite Aid Files for Bankruptcy
> It's not like Toys 'R' Us stores disappearing in 2018. That happened because big-box toy stores were simply no longer viable as a category.

I thought getting bought and pillaged by private equity was the reason.

agrover··on IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view
YES actually, Red Hat bought Cygnus a long time ago, and formerly-Cygnus (now RH) devs are huge GCC contributors.
agrover··on I claim Rich Hickey is wrong about non-null arguments to functions (2020)
It was added specifically for c/ffi, so this is cool.
agrover··on US vs. Poller: Ruling says police can use iPhones to circumvent tinted windows
time for the tinfoil!
agrover··on Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64-bit mode
I doubt it. This is probably talking about early versions of OS/2, like, pre-2.0.
agrover··on Bitcoin mining becomes unprofitable as BTC price falls to average cost of mining
Why wasn't it there already?
agrover··on Clap: The New Audio Plug-In Standard
I'm a big Bitwig user. This makes me want to get u-he and other CLAP-supporting plugins.
agrover··on Yep, I created the new Avatar font
More cowbell.
agrover··on The Silence Is Deafening (2020)
So, like YouTube? Where only the creator can see dislikes?
agrover··on Ask HN: Gmail account security
And JMAP.
agrover··on Substantially more monarch butterflies have arrived in California to overwinter
Good news, everyone!
agrover··on Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres
Salk and Polio vaccine.
agrover··on File Descriptor Limits
google Michael Kerrisk.
agrover··on Firefox 75.0
about:config is not for typical users.
agrover··on Zoom will enable waiting rooms by default to stop Zoombombing
yes
agrover··on WeWTF
And that can be used to spin up secondary revenue streams more easily than starting from scratch.
agrover··on AMD Ryzen 3000 announced
agree. Hopefully the seventy megabytes of cache between the two chiplets will help...
agrover··on Why We Love QUIC and HTTP/3
The IETF QUIC working is well-aware of this, and is attempting to save design room for future QUIC versions as much as possible. The "QUIC invariants" spec documents everything that is guaranteed not to change, but other than than everything in a future QUICv2 could be updated (e.g. tls version, features, large parts of packet header layout).
agrover··on What travel insurance really means
Yeah but that's for the insurer. Getting "insurance insurance" would be for the customer, to protect getting screwed over by their original insurer, who has chosen the short-term option of rejecting a valid claim, but which results in long-term loss of trust in the entire industry. The only solution being...more insurance? Crazy.
agrover··on Trump’s assassination joke isn’t just a threat to Secretary Clinton
I thought Trump called him "lyin' Ted" and the zodiac killer thing came from Reddit.
agrover··on Return of incandescent light bulbs as MIT makes them more efficient than LEDs
bad reporting.
agrover··on The 1% hide their money offshore, then use it to corrupt our democracy
With Scalia gone you still think it's unlikely?
agrover··on Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundred FPS
this is usually not called normalization, it's more commonly called dynamic range compression, or just 'compression', fwiw.
agrover··on H.265/HEVC vs. H.264/AVC: 50% bit rate savings verified
tl;dr vp9 is competitive with h.264 but not h.265
agrover··on Two Weeks of Rust
A signed 32 bit "offset" value gives you 2GB in each direction, not 4GB in each direction.
agrover··on Docker: Not Even a Linker
Go only supports static linking. No dynamic linking means no linking issues when deploying the same binary across a billion machines in the Googleplex.
agrover··on Some notes on Rust
I think just like other languages, writing Rust leads to a familiarity with what the compiler wants. Then you spend more time thinking about design and the problem at hand, and less fighting the compiler. I think Rust will ultimately be easier than C++ to write because while there are tricky concepts to master, there should be much fewer of them than C++ has.
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